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Exeter Advocate, 1909-08-26, Page 2116--- -• — CURRENT TOPICS. The "back to nature" mevernout &mono the ultra -civilized has as- sumed certain forms which make it fair sport kr the comic spirits of the press and the, stage. Clever farces have been produetel in which the element of humbug in the al- leged "simplicity" of awolldont and plutocraes has been amusingly cari- catured, while the bungalow•: craze has not oeeapcd tho shafts of the paragraphers. There aro, how- ever, others who aro dissatisfied with tho simple life. To thorn "back to nature" m0311; something more than plain living in the coun- try, dispensing with luxury and ar- tificiality. What they hanker for ie the wild life, a reversion to pri- mitive conditions fur a time. "The restless element in our nature," says the editor of The North Ameri- can Review in his "diary" "requires us to go adventuring once in a way ; with our best clothes and worldly estate left far in the background, we must go forth afoot or on horse- back or in a catboat to see and bear what our spinning world may baso to confide to us." 1 •r • 1 And the responsive editor tells with pleasure of a new mode of vag- abondage that is springing up in England and Scotland. Men go off in caravans, with a rough house- keeping outfit. a folded tent for the night, and camp in unexplored woods or on the coast of unseen lands. Tho sea, the wide stretch of horizon, the sounds of the forest, the sky and wind soothe distemper- ed intellects and bring peace, san- ity and health to victims of vanity and struggle and machine -made ha- bits. The simple life is rational when rationally followed, and the call of the wild, of untamed nature, of the touch of savagery --minus cruelty --should bo answered occa- sionally by the "highest product of evolution." Science has overthrown a good many fixed beliefs and popular no- tions, and not infrequeutly it has, like high courts, re+ersed itself. Paradoxes become mere truisms, discredited "instincts" are vindi- cated by faller knowledge, and fads are incorporated into the body of conservative truth. Tho bold phy- sician who declared a year or so ago that bathing was overdone by the ultra -modern WWI subjected to much ridicule. The daily bath has almost become a hall -mark of civ- ilization, if not of decency. Yet the small boy who hates the tub with all its works, and tho Lazy Leeson IX. Paul on Christian titan who dodges a bath when he can eithout-admitting his guilt even 1,ote. Golden Teat, l Cor. to himself, may be Tess perverse 13: t-13. and benighted than we imagine. 1. Love Completes All Virtues, and Makes I'erfect All the Good Here is a conservative and regu- Things of Life. -Vs. 1-3. Eloquence, lar medical organ, the Medical uninspired by real love, not seek- ing the highest good of the hearer, Journal, which conveys the intelli is but, sounding brass, or a tinkling gence that there is such a thing as cymbal; mere noise without har- d waterless bath, or bathing with- mony, without meaning, without out water. It is likely, it says, the soul of music. This is true even that much of the benefit attribut If we had the gift of tongues be- stowed by the Holy Spirit at ed to water is really duo to the Pentecost., and could express in complete exposure of the ekin to the every language with the utmost air. The respiratory function, and eloquence, every rapt. emotion, the ''bath" which attends to that, every highest experience and function need not contain water. ecatay of the human heart, that (tarp of a thousand strings"; yea, Our authority. while aelvisiug plen- though 1 have the eloquence and ty of water --provided it is nut too perfect language of the angels. cold and recognizing that for that On the other hand, eloquence is feeling of well-being which follows one of the most powerful instru- a bath water is necessary, goes on menta of love in persuading tnen to say: to repent, in moving men toward righteousness, in portraying the "Unhappy persons, however, blessedness of serving Christ. 1)e - whose travels in the "provinces" spino not these gifts, but transform 01 into the desert may temporarily and gitr them power ss the instru- deprive thein of sufficient water for ntents of love. Then they are sweet bathing. may find a substitute that as the music of the angel harpers will at leapt afford a part of their in heaven. aei ustomcd enjoyment. The bey may be energetically robbed with a 11. Tho Spectrum of Love. The hru�h or coarse Turkish towel and (Qualities Which are Combined in 1 erf(•ct love. --Vs. 4-7. The Mee,- afterward rrp,,,e(1 to the air for fifteen 1011101, • ,.r ••,. 'fhe nr.•nstorn- late importetice of love. as an e(l feeling ••i v ;ion. s r w1:1 fallow, and essential part of all virtues and ac- tions, has been shown in the first uninitiated to he astonishingly three ver'.es. cleansing. Our next duty is to learn what love is. Like life, love cannot be defined, but it can I,.' described and The small 'toy will hail the water- recognized by nhat it does, by its less bath while eliminating the frees. by the expression of its brush anti coarse towel, and the qualities. it is like life. The great - lazy man will feel that his vindiea- great- est scientists cannot tell what it is tion k not yet complete The nor- in its eesenee, but only describe tt by qualities and results. All the nial person will be glad to know qualities together do not make life that a wateriess bath is better than or love. n,•nr "Love is a compound thing." •�----- Paul tells us. It is like light. As you have seen a man of science Hew a woman does envy a pian take a beam of light and pass it. when he struts up the street nn a through a crystal prism, as you rainy day with no skirts to (Iraq• have Fern it eome out on the other side of the prism hr,•ken up into its component colors- - red, and Money talks, and a penny makes eel • etlow. and t•t.'tt'I ,ted more noisy on a cnntaelnitiuu plata orange, and all the enlors of the this a $2 wilt rainbow Paid eases this thing. NOB IIYPOOIIODRIAOSGREATSHIINBATTLE now "DOE 1u\Olu GUTS" WILL So Near to Hypocrites That They Have the Same Effect on Others "That they do good; that they I his goodness is in the giving of ef- be ri1'h fi ►n good works."-- I. fen., cicnt service t., hisworld. 1'., be ti 18. good means that you have caught There are at least two kinds of the vision of the possible goodness good people; these who are good of the complete. ordered, trained for nothing and those who are good life, that life liar become worth the for something. It is easy to inung- living for the sake of the value and ine you belong in the second class meaning yon may put into it. while actually placing yourself in The really good people in this the first by allowing all your piety world never have timo to stop and to evaporate in speculations as to take stock of themselves; they aro the past or in anticiputions for the s., busy doing their work and fignt- future. They only are good who ing their battles that they cannot aro good for something in the pre- stop to look in the mirror and see sent. whether their helmets aro on Tho good for nothing people are straight or count their pulses to all of one value, though they sown see whether they are healthy. They to differ greatly in appearance; the do not even know whether they are good for nothing saints and the good or not. good for nothing sinners, the Real religion must either be out loafers, shirkera, parasites, weak- for business or go out of business. lings, and plain nonentities, and It trust either make the world bet - the whining, sighing, dreaming ter, be doing things for the ideals pietists aro tied together in the which it sees, or acknowledge that same bundle of worthlessness ; they it is nothing but contribute nothing to life. The ADRL:1bi OR A DELUSION. sooner we recognize this the quick- er will we be relieved of one hind- rance to real religion. One of the worst types of charac- ter is that which fortifies itself with the boast that it never did any harm. Tho test of lifo will not be by the mischief we have left un- done, but by the positive good we have done. The man who is too lazy to get into trouble or to do any harm wins no merit by his inno- cence. There is no good in the goodness that is only innocence of evil. Whenever a life is given over to negrtion, to the sole aim of be- ing absolutely FREE FROM ALL WRONG, it always finds that as soon as it is rid of sin in one form the old enemy it entering in a dozen new ways. There is no goodness save positive goodness. The only way to over- come evil is to put the whole life into the pursuit of the good. It is wholly a vain endeavor to hope to find goodness by negation. Yet it is the easiest thing in the world, without even giving voice to the foolish prayer, "0, to be nothing," to answer practically the prayer for yourself. The strange thing is that those people who try most successfully to be nothing are most willing to give themselves away on any altar or in any cause. He only is good who is good for something, and the real measure of Now when one is in the thick of as big an undertaking as religion sets before him, nothing leas than the redemption of the whole world, he has no energy left to wonder whe- ther he is as good as ho ought to be. Tho sickly saints are always wor- rying over their souls; their spiri- tual livers are always out of order because they are perpetually exam- ining them. They complain and groan so much that the ignorant, hearing thein, imagine religion to he a mournful affair. He only is good who does good. Every man is good in the measure of the life he gives the world. He only is fit for heaven who is realty fit, efficient, for the service of hea- ven here. Tho greatest need of the world is mon and women to whom the divine plans of life are so glorious tltat they will pay any price to become proficient in realizing them. There is a world of good work to be done right here. You may cease to worry as to whether you are good or not if you will but begin to do with all your powers the good work that lips next to your hands. The only way to be is to do. Every man really reflects the thing for which lie works. He who works for the ideal kingdom shows its glory though he knows it not. HENRY THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTER\11'10NA', LESSON, Al GUST _'9. D0 THEIR }'1Glt'1'ING. 7'y cwt , and the "cartridge" or firing charge Of "modified" or '•M. U." cordite. as it is called, weighs Ly is.etf ewt. Two aimed „hut:( r tttutute are possible fr,uu each gun in battle, costing the taxpayer Leo a shot, including Cartridge and III jectilc. l:actr 1)rea.ltiought, First Guns 11'ill be Fired When the further, carries in her magaitnes Enemy is Five or Sire c,ghty rounds per gun. This is a not uncommon affection The '•muzzle velocity" of the gun Miles OIT. -- the speed, that ie, at which ilte among school children, especially shot travels n•t it flashes forth oil tlose who are uncl(•4nly in t!!eIr hs- Huw our groat Dreadnoughts its errand of destruction i; •' .'x30 bits and came from unsanitary should go into battle is all sot down feet, or nearly half a mile a homes. Tho cause is, however, not it, black and white -in a little type- second. The force with which always dirt, and the cleanest and written official document thus is the shot starts off is enough best kept children may suffer at kept under lock and key on board to send it clean through a times as well as the dirty and uu every ship. Much of it, naturally, slab of wrought iron, set up im- eared for. is strictly <xuttidwitial, and with ntediately in front .,f the muzzle of The trouble is not the same as that, of course, we have nothing the gun, 3 feet 3 incites thick. When granular lids, another rather (emi- ts, do here. All of it, how•et•er, is fit ed with a full "battering" charge noon disease, although fortunately not necessarily so -and that itt ver the force set up ---the "muzzle en- becoming loss so in schools whore presort story, says Louden lit- ergy" of the gun, as it is called ; periodical medical examinations of Big. eno gun by itself, that is- as sufli- the children are made. In the Royal Navy every captain, dent to heave bodily up 1 feet a The margins of the lids are con- ou conunissu,ning his ship, is fur- weight of 37,600 tons, equivalent stantly striking each other in the Dished with the shove docun►ont•, to that of both the Dreadnought process of wiuking-as often as Live containing gunner Inemoranda, lay- an41 the Bellerophon together. At thousand or ten thousand times a ing down in general terms tiro two utiles off a shot from ono of the day ; and if it were nut for na- ruuges at which fire should be Dreadnought's 12 -inch guns would t.ure's protection, this would keep opened in action in varying sic- go through le inches of Krupp steel, the eyelids in a constant state 01 cuntstances. The battle will bo be- or eV, feet of wrought iron, as eas- irritation or inflammation. injury gun at the farthest range at which ;ly as a stone from a catapult gods from this constant tapping is pro - it is possible to see the effects of through a glass window. vented by a thin layer of grease so - the shot by the heavy armor piers- To give some idea of the range of ereted by the glands of the lids and ing, long-range guns mounted in these guns. Mounted on one of the by the touching of the two rows the turrets -the 12 inch 50 -ton Dover forts, they cuu'd easily drop (.f eyela,hes which reduces the force guns, of which immense weapons, shells ou the dock of a Channel el the impact. 50 feat in length, each of our Dread- packet in the act of leaving Calais When the lashes are thin and noughta carries ten. Tho parts of Harbor. improperly curved, or when. fur any the enemy's ship at which each gun reason, the grease glands do nob should aim, as the opposing ships THEY ARE ''WIRE CItJNS, secrete properly, this natural pro - get by degrees closer and the enemy as the term goes, constructed in tection is removed, and the lids becomes more and more clearly vis - each ease by winding coil on coil slap each other with story ttink•and ible, are in turn indicated. The of steel ribbon or "tape" ('% inch grow sore from the beating. marks, or "targets," to bo aimed wide and 0 inches thick) round and The layer of grease acts also as at are named, and it is suggested round tho central steel tube or t. darn to prevent the overflowing how they should be changed in each "barrel," exactly as the string is of the tears and to direct them to case as the range becomes closer. wound round on tho handle of a the inner side of the eye, where WHEN TO FIRE THE RIO GUNS cricket bat. There are fourteen they pass down through the tear - layers at the muzzle and seventy- duct into the nose. If the grease This is how, for instance, the five at the breech end. The tape is ahsent, the margins of the lids Dreadnought and Bellerophon, our or "wire" is then covered by outer are constantly wet, and become two newest "capital ships" of the "jackets," or cylinders of steel. sodden and so predisposed to in - reorganized "Homo Fleet," would Upwards of 206,130 yards of wire__ flammntiun. begin in battle. First of all the a length of 117 miles --weighing The germs of inflammation are t•ig 12 -inch guns would open a long some 13;: tons, are required for always present on the eyelids, as range fire, with the aid of the each of the Dreadnought's 12 -inch elsewhere on the skin ; and when range -finders in the tops, at the guns; and it takes from three to the lids are injured by the winking outset taking the lull of the en- four weeks to wind on the wire. er the moisture from the overflow - The ship generally as their tar Tho riding of the barrel comprises ing tears, they offer a fertile soil get. The opening shots would go forty-eight grooves, varying in for the growth of these bacteria of oft when the enemy were from five depth from .08 inches at the muzzle inflammation. to .1 inch of the breech. Each of A frequent cause of sore lids in the Dreadnought guns, separately, children is astigmatism or some employs in its manufacture, from other defect of vision, which induc- first to last, in various capacities, es a more constant and more t-io- upwards of 500 Hien. lent winking. Ton big guns and twenty -ono A serious result of sore lids, if knots speed are the characteristics allowed to go on without treatmeet of the Dreadnought standard type 1; the loss of the lashes, which fall of ship. Four big guns and eigh- out, and if the inflemniatien con- tinues long enough to do -trey the iu all navies previous to the ad- ' hair bulbs, do not return. vont of the first Dreadnought. Thus, In the treatment of sore lids, the in hitting power of battery alone, crusts which form on the edges a squadron of four Dreadnoughts should be remt,ved by gentle mop - should outmatch a fleet of eight or ping with a small wad of cotton even ten pre -Dreadnoughts. soaked in a solution of bicarbonate This is what would happen if of soda or of boric acid and then they met. Both would be naturally tt mild antiseptic ointment should in line ahead formation, as Is applied in a thin layer. The hest it is culled, the formation now ani- treatment in many cases is a cor- versally accepted as the orthodox rection of any defect of sision 1►y battle formation -- the opposing properly fitted glasses. fleets steaming in parallel lines, In fuer cases out of five, sore lids the ships in each fleet keeping each gite warning that vision is defec- tive, and lasting relief will not be obtained until this defect is correct- ed•--Yotith's Companion. • ...4 N•e•+• ••N SOItE EYELIDS. tosix miles off -from 8,000 yards to 10,000 yards. The shells would come hurtling down, at a steep angle of descent, on to the deck (,i the ship aimed at, smashing through and carrying widespread havoc into the interior of the hull, with their bursting charges of shattering lyddite. AIMING AT SEAMEN GUNNERS The guns can carry three tines F. COPE. that range easily, and tho range- finder would place the shots. As to the capabilities of our seamen love, through the magnificent prism gunners in the matter of aiming of his inspired intellect, and it m e two years ago ththen of the bat - comes out on the other aide broken tleship Cumnrom lr, ono of tit ftipew into its elements. And in these Channel Fleet ships recently ender call the spectrum of love, the tow words we have wont ono might Lord Charles Beresford, at target practice at 8,000 yards (ne.irly five analysis of love. miles), dropped shell after shell III. Love is Imperishable. --Vs. exactly on to the target, and the 8-1t1. Love, like light, shines on shots all fell within a space the however it may bo received. Men size of a lawn -tennis court. In that in wake of the other, with from 400 niay hate it, but love continues. ease the canvas target was set up yards to 500 yards internals be- lted may get so !lenient(' as not to to represent the hull of an ordin- tweet' individual vessels. Of two be influenced by it, but God loses ary battleship, a rectangle some such fleets, in the one made up of them still. Men may persecute and 400 feet lung, an average ship's four Dreadnoughts, each carrying CARE OF THE TEETH.injure and rebel against and hate length, by about 30 feet, the height g TEN 12 -INCH DUNS, those who love then, but these of an ordinary ship out of the It would surprise many women things cannot destroy the love. water. There is not much to be the whole line would cower about who consider themselves hygi, nie in Love is like the laws of nature; seen of n ship, it tnay be imagined, 2,100 yards in length. In the other the cera of their teeth to know you may break them, but they do at that range. Even ata distance fleet, consisting of eight pre-Dreat that they were not. (_'leaning the not change; you may defy them, as near as only 2,000 yards - a mile noughts, each mounting four 1., teeth there times ,s day is of little but they work right on ; you may and a quarter -a ship of the size inch guns, the line would extend avail it it is not done corrrr.tly. use them and may trust them un- of one of our first-class battleships 6,600 yards in length, or over three Brushing may be actually harmful lest, deepest, happiest, most per- would look no bigger than a wax- miles. The fleet of Dreadnoughts if too rough or in ouch a diroetien IV. The Immortal Three. -Vs match does, held up horizontally, would, with twenty-one knots to ar to push the gems back from tee 1:3. And now, in conclusion, abideth about it foot oft in front .d the eye. eighteen, have sufficient advantage tt etlt (lean the teeth at Ire ..i. As the combatants get nearer, in speed for its admiral to main' trice a day, preferably after enrh faith, hope, charity. the 12 inch fetes should aim next, fain from the outset his four ors' steal. Neer neglect it before go.Faith Abideth. We shell never it is suggested, at a certain of the sol• abreast of the first tour of the ing to bed as when the mouth is tease to trust in Ood, for our souls n,orc prominent and madil} dis eitrmy's line. There would he noquiet and there is no flow of salt a can no more lire in heaven than tingnished [retort t of the hostile escape for them, and it would mean (l ental decay' is most active. Keep they can here, without divine help ship,such as the turrets or bar- that a ten gun ship would br oppos y ur toou thbrsh hygienic. I.et it and influence which come from trusting his as Governor. Helper, bates and the conning tower. (let- rd to a four gun ship, with the to hang where it will get sun and sir. ting nearer still. they should trans- evitable result. (if the gunners were `\,Iah it occasionally in a geed .lis - and Friend. Faith will only he ter their aim and "get on" certain all equal!) matched) that the lead- inferrer.••. Throw it away at sign stronger, more complete, in heaven other parts, aitch as the hexes of ing four pre -Dreadnoughts would .•f ,etat'►e(1 trrictlew. One .,f these than h, re• the funnels and of the masts. t,ct- be silenced. On that the four !edging in the tii:uat may give seri- than A1,idrth. For the more Ring closer still, the turret guns Dreadnoughts would only Neve to ouv tlonblt we gain the :arger our vision of sh„uld concentrate their fire oti the slacken Spred and drop back, tak- things to hoer for. The more we armored water liar of the enemy. ing the remaining ships of the en-+ Bain our ideal, the more glori.ots At 8,000 yards one set of objects emy in turn, and orerpewering tho ideal to he gained. And thisis aimed at, at 6.000 yards another, them similarly under superior gun- FAITH AND IIOPI?. through eternal Ages. We do not nt 4.000 yards another, and so on, fire. At the opening .,t elicit an en- �h, d�,ri t bP aorruwfui, (ladingerase Browing, developing, by go until the enemy's ship runes with- gagenient tho fifth and sixth in lino Ott, don't be sorrewtul, piny : ing to heaven• greatest of these is charity. Love.. in 3,000 yards. the limit when tor- .•f the h,or grin ships would peaFor, liking the year together. ray tote the Greatest of All. But the c•,me into action and uthrr ably be able to open a diagonal (tear, conditions hate to he allowed for. fire upon the rearmost of the tin 'there isn't more night than day; (1) It is greatest in its nature. nob- 1i, the final stages, when between gun ships; but the range would he It's rainy weather, my I.' ed one, lest, sleet est, hnppie't, most per- Brest that it could hardly prone 1.000 and 2.C(' yards, the firing r(, Time's wheels they heavily run: tasite, most heavenly. (2) It brings should he at whatever parts of an effectual. Victory in future sea But, taking the year together, my is closest to Gm!, make. us par- enemy's ship seembest at the mo- warfare will lie unquestionably dear, takers of his nature, his children ntent. It may be noted that inside with the fleet which is able to con.There isn't more cloud than sun. and heirs. (1) It is the one thing the conning -tower on board every eentrate the largest number of without which faith nn<l hope are battleship, by means of a simple heavy Bans within the shortest lint We're old folks now, companion: of little avail. (0 it is the most arrangement of stripes in red, blue of battle. lienee the raison d'etre Our heads they are growing grey; pnwerhll, exerts the widest influ- and yellow painted round the upper of the fast and big ship; and, also, i;, t. taking the year all round. my enee for gond, is the streng'st ono- part of the wail to show the various there is the certainty that the nay- ,!ear. tire for the uphuilding of chnractcr. arcs of training of all the guns. a ire of the world have been forced' Yon always will find the may.. (5) It is universal. Every person, captain can tell by a glance at any into a eontett in size the outcome\•e't had our May. my dailies, of every degree, may have this time which and how many of them el tthich none can foretell. \rt,1 „lir rose.. '. ,ng ago; love. More than all other thins will bear on the enemy nt am given _ f• _.._-_-_ \t.ti the time of the year is corns, together it makes those thee hnve point. my dear, it. "free and equal.” (u) With GUNS O\ 'fill: R:1T1't,f;Slltl'C. -That man has dune some re- For the long, dark night end the faith and hope. love is etcrnel. Tho markably Boa} tbing4." Yes; 1 snow. longer one lima, the more !eve he This is what a Dreadnought gun was one .,f them." can haveit will expand and grow is like and what it can do The ten — - forever and ever, in in�•reasing beat t guns mounted on board the Doctor You have some sort of hie's(<Ttic:s and glory Dreadnought. and Bellerophon and poison in your system." Patient-- .tnd we feel and know that we eas their ,'IAss are each 12 inch calibre ••Shouldn't wonder Whet was go - e - turret guns. weighing 8n tons each, that �tnff yon gate me 1\'ilei.^.t : He bads the way. SAID 1'N('J.E SIl ,15. mounted in pair• in two Irarbettrs 1y, Cud <,f night, my darling- ' of turrets, hoanily armored with I Stranger -"('an you direct Zile to Uf the ni;ht of death so Brim; ":1 woman takes a man fer het- plates •.f le inch Krupp steel. Each the Blank Hotel i" Polieen n , •f .1 •Irl ti III,: Bate that from lite loads ter er fer wore. Time'll tell gun c•, is to make £l0,000 'tredve as ti "'. tr.�oil wife, which." Mee shells weighing v50 pn,inds, or ye. an' 1 won't'" It titin, .orr; but I've no T t t. ,:lie that leads to ,itis. But (iod is God. my faithful. Of night as wt 11 as of day;